The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
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The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge
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#2The Peace War / Marooned in Realtime (in one book as "Across Rraltime" were his best works I read. Really impressive.
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#3The Peace War / Marooned in Realtime (in one book as "Across Rraltime" were his best works I read. Really impressive.
"Longshot" is heartbreaking, and certainly, "True Names" should be more widely read.
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#5"A Fire Upon the Deep" is a great book for several reasons. I can't think of any better expression of what Usenet felt like in its prime, than portrayed there.
"Hexapodia is the key insight"
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#6I really like his books. A fun anecdote is that I had him as a college professor in the early 90's before I knew that he was a SciFi author.
Among other things, he taught me how to write pre-emptive task switching in 68k assembly language.
Fun times!
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#7"A Fire Upon the Deep" is a great book for several reasons. I can't think of any better expression of what Usenet felt like in its prime, than portrayed there. "Hexapodia is the key insight"
That hexapodia business seemed like a hint in a murder mystery; some of the connections to the rest of the story were reasonably clear, but I always felt like I was missing some insight there.
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#8I've only read A Fire Upon The Deep, which I found super interesting in terms of setting, but the storytelling felt a bit clunky to me at the time. I was still intrigued by the author though and I read A Deepness In The Sky and was blown away.
Storytelling, setting, everything just clicked. I know there is a third book in the trilogy but it seems a bit back to the roots in terms of setting and I haven't touched just out of the fear that I wouldn't love it as much as ADITS... Should I?
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#9I've only read A Fire Upon The Deep, which I found super interesting in terms of setting, but the storytelling felt a bit clunky to me at the time. I was still intrigued by the author though and I read A Deepness In The Sky and was blown away. Storytelling, setting, everything just clicked. I know there is a third book in the trilogy but it seems a bit back to the roots in terms of setting and I haven't touched just…
A Deepness In The Sky is the best in the trilogy, by far.
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#10The Peace War / Marooned in Realtime (in one book as "Across Rraltime" were his best works I read. Really impressive.
"Longshot" is heartbreaking, and certainly, "True Names" should be more widely read.
I think “True Names” may have been a bit overshadowed by “Press Enter” written about the same time.